Sibleyville, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Wakarusa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66046. It lies near Blue Mound. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence East quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Sibleyville within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1885 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Lawrence East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

78 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Sibleyville between 2015 and 2018, burning about 414 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
16 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Douglas County	297
4 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	6609
3 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	6590
22 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Douglas County	237
18 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Douglas County	6681
25 June 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	6273
15 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	5955
19 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	5008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Vinland	3.2 miles	17
Broken Arrow Park	4.0 miles	19
Pleasant Grove	4.4 miles	18
Noria	4.6 miles	19
Lawrence	6.4 miles	19
Hesper	6.5 miles	21
Eudora	6.6 miles	21
Clearfield	6.7 miles	18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Sibleyville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7507219	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484876. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.